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Legal Futures Blog
‘Polluter pays’ means profession set to pay less for LeO
By Neil Rose
Blakeway: Vision 2030The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO) budget is set to rise by 6.9% next year but the levy on lawyers to pay for it will fall because of the stronger…
Regulatory Oversight
FTC and Eight States Sue Toast Over Hidden Fees and Deceptive Subscription Practices
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
On October 29, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the attorneys general (AGs) of Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Utah filed a lawsuit against Toast Inc. and…
State AG Blog
State AG News: Deceptive Practices, Pricing, Fintech (October 22-28, 2026)
By Toni Michelle Jackson, Derick D. Dailey, David Kempen
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates…
Inside Consumer Protection
Algorithmic Pricing Laws: A Growing State Patchwork and What Businesses Should Know
By Laura Kim, Lindsey Tonsager, Jayne Ponder, Jehan Patterson, Irene Kim
Lawmakers and regulators at both the state and federal levels are increasingly focusing on consumer protection considerations relating to algorithmic pricing. On September 25, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") closed…
Inside Privacy
Algorithmic Pricing Laws: A Growing State Patchwork and What Businesses Should Know
By Laura Kim, Lindsey Tonsager, Jayne Ponder, Jehan Patterson, Irene Kim
Lawmakers and regulators at both the state and federal levels are increasingly focusing on consumer protection considerations relating to algorithmic pricing. On September 25, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") closed…
Connect on Tech
UK subscription contracts: What pre-contract information must businesses provide from January 2027?
By Julia Hemmings, Lucy Hart, Daniel Quirk
Background As discussed in the first alert in our series on subscription contracts, the Government has published draft secondary legislation and draft statutory guidance ahead of the implementation of the…
Marler Blog
FDA Says the Trader Joe’s Chicken Wrap E. coli Outbreak Is Over – and That Telling You More “Would Not Have Provided Consumers with an Action.” Section 705(b) Has a Name for That: Gross Deception of the Consumer
By Bill Marler
On October 28, the FDA declared over the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to “multi-ingredient wraps with chicken” – FDA reference #1421, USDA 2026-04. Fifty people sick. Here is the agency’s explanation, in full:…
Don’t Mess With Taxes
How to avoid being haunted by ghost tax return preparers
By Kay Bell
Some ghosts this Halloween are cool trick-or-treaters. But when it comes to taxes, beware of ghost preparers. (Photo by Harun) A ghost preparer is not some spectral tax entity. It…
Coblentz Law
Four New State Privacy Laws in 2026: What Businesses Need to Know
By Scott Hall and Meaghan Henderson Less than a decade after California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2018, privacy legislation has spread to nearly half of the…
Conflict of Laws .net
Programme for the Online Book Launch – Choice of Law for Consumer Contracts in Theory and Practice
By Tobias Lutzi
The following post has been kindly shared with us by Benedikt Schmitz (University of Groningen). We are pleased to announce the programme for the upcoming virtual book launch of Choice…